• MA, Public Administration/Economic Development, Harvard University, 1984
• JD, Law, Columbia Law School, 1968
• BA, Sociology/Anthropology, Colgate University, 1965

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• Pommersheim, Frank. Tribal Justice: 25 Years as a Tribal Appellate Justice LibGuide.
• Pommersheim, Frank. BookTV Interview with Frank Pommersheim on Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes and the Constitution, (C-SPAN, Nov. 4, 2017).
• Pommersheim, Frank. In the Moment… The Camden 28 (Interview with Frank Pommersheim & Anne Dunham) (S.D. Public Radio, Sept. 6, 2017).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Poems, 41 Legal Stud. F. 309 (2017).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Turtle Talk Guest Post: A Short Inquiry Into Pe’Sla: History, Public Policy, and Moral Imagination (Nov. 22, 2016).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Hey Jo (Included in Volume 60 Joint Dedication: Justice John K. Konenkamp & Professor Jo Pasqualucci), 60 S.D. L. Rev. xiii (2015).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Local Memory and Karma (The Buddha Correspondence, Vol. 2) (2015).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Tribal Justice: Twenty-Five Years as a Tribal Appellate Justice (2015).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Buddha Visits a Neighborhood Farmers Market, 59 S.D. L. Rev. 431 (2014).
• Pommersheim, Frank. First Review of Scholarly Promise and Accomplishment, 2013 Mich. St. L. Rev. 291 (2013).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Land Into Trust: An Inquiry Into Law, Policy, and History, 49 Idaho L. Rev. 519 (2013).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes and the Constitution (2009, Paperback ed. 2012).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Buddha Overhears a Conversation at a High School Basketball Game in South Dakota, in What Makes a South Dakotan?: South Dakota Stories 144 (John E. Miller & Lenora Hudson eds., 2012).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Due Process and the Legitimacy of Tribal Courts, in The Indian Civil Rights Act At Forty 105 (Kristen Carpenter, Matthew Fletcher & Angela Riley eds., 2012).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Frank Ettawageshik, & Joan Timeche, Videorecording from the Rebuilding Native Nations Course Series: The First Key to Effective Constitutions: Legitimacy (2012).
• Pommersheim, Frank. The Crazy Horse Malt Liquor Case: From Tradition to Modernity and Halfway Back, 57 S.D. L. Rev. 42 (2012).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Videorecording: A Key Constitutional Issue: Dispute Resolution (Q&A) (2012).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Amicus Briefs in Indian Law: The Case of Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land & Cattle Co., 56 S.D. L. Rev. 86 (2011).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Buddha Speaks With His Oncologist (for David Getches) (2011).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Small is Beautiful: The Buddha Correspondence (2011).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Videorecording: Constitution, Powers, Implementation, and Interpretation (2011).
• Pommersheim, Frank. At the Crossroads: A New and Unfortunate Paradigm of Tribal Sovereignty, 55 S.D. L. Rev. 48 (2010).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Festschrift for Phil Frickey: A Poem, 98 Cal. L. Rev. 1461 (2010).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Memorial by Professor Frank Pommersheim, in A Scholar's Pursuit: The John Hagemann Quotation Collection ix (Patrick M. Garry ed., Special Memorial ed. 2010).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Videorecording from the Rebuilding Native Nations Course Series: Giving the Justice System the Support it Needs (2010).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Cattle Company, Inc.: An Introduction with Questions, 54 S.D. L. Rev. 365 (2009).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Afterword, 33 Am. Indian L. Rev. 239 (2008).
• Pommersheim, Frank. East of the River: Poems Ancient and New (2008).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Poetry, Law, & Poetry: Some Notes Toward a Unified Theory, 9 Tribal L.J. 1 (2008).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Lines for a Colleague (Frank Slagle, 1947-2006), 52 S.D. L. Rev. [xi] (2007).
• Pommersheim, Frank. New Directions in Indian Law Scholarship: An Afterword, 32 Am. Indian L. Rev. 157 (2007).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Haiku for Mike Roche, 51 S.D. L. Rev. [xxxi] (2006).
• Pommersheim, Frank. South Dakota Tribal Court Handbook (Rev. ed. 2006).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (Nell Jessup Newton ed., Rev. ed. 2005) (scholarship contribution).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Poetry, 29 Legal Stud. F. 269 (2005).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Present Moment: A Zen Reflection on Indian Law Doctrine, 2 Indigenous Peoples' J. L. Culture & Resistance 104 (2005).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Constitutional Shadows: The Missing Narrative in Indian Law, 80 N.D. L. Rev. 743 (2004).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Lara: A Constitutional Crisis in Indian Law, 28 Am. Indian L. Rev. 299 (2004).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Poetry, 28 Legal Stud. F. 133 (2004).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Tribal Courts and Federal Courts: A Very Preliminary Set of Notes for Federal Courts Teachers, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 63 (2004).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Elsie Meeks, A Review of South Dakota Criminal Justice: A Study of Racial Disparities by Richard Braunstein & Steve Feimer, 48 S.D. L. Rev. 208 (2003).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Federal Indian Law and Treaties: Friend or Foe?, Indian Country Today, Feb. 19, 2003 at 1.
• Pommersheim, Frank. Indian Tribal Courts, in 4 Dictionary of American History 316 (Stanley I. Kutler ed., 3rd ed. 2003).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Oral History Interview With Frank Pommersheim (2003).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Book Review, 71 Pacific. Hist. Rev. 343 (2002) (reviewing Thomas Biolsi, Deadliest Enemies: Law and the Making of Race Relations On and Off Rosebud Reservation, 2001).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Haiku for the Birds: And Other Related Stuff (2002).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Indian Self-Governance and the U.S. Supreme Court: An Historical Crossroads?, Indian Country Today, Nov. 6, 2002, at A6.
• Pommersheim, Frank. Is There a (Little or Not So Little) Constitutional Crisis Developing in Indian Law: A Brief Essay, 5 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 271 (2002).
• Pommersheim, Frank. John P. LaVelle, Toward a Great Sioux Nation Judicial Support Center and Supreme Court: An Interim Planning and Recommendation Report for the Wakpa Sica Historical Society’s Reconciliation Place Project, 17 Wicazo Sa Rev. 183 (2002).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: A Little Haiku Essay on a Missed Constitutional Moment, 38 Tulsa L. Rev. 49 (2002).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Looking Forward and Looking Back: The Promise and Potential of a Sioux Nation Judicial Support Center and Sioux Nation Supreme Court, 34 Ariz. St. L.J. 269 (2002).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Panel II: Natural Resources, Economics, and the Environment: Global Issues Facing Native Communities (Panel Discussion), 7 Great Plains Nat. Resources J. 23 (2002).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Reconciliation Place Project Will Foster Understanding Between Races, Argus Leader, Feb. 10, 2002, at B13.
• Pommersheim, Frank. No Nature Haiku Poem/Ornithology and Metaphysics, 5 Great Plains Nat. Resources J. 38 (2001).
• Pommersheim, Frank. The Autumn After September 11, 6 Great Plains Nat. Resources J. [frontispiece] (2001).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Late Spring Haiku in Rhyme/Haiku for the Birds, 4 Great Plains Nat. Resources J. [x] (1999-2000).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Marxist Haiku, 4 Great Plains Nat. Resources J. [ix] (1999-2000).
• Pommersheim, Frank. ‘Our Federalism’ in the Context of Federal Courts and Tribal Courts: An Open Letter to the Federal Courts' Teaching and Scholarly Community, 71 U. Colo. L. Rev. 123 (2000).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Coyote Paradox: Some Indian Law Reflections from the Edge of the Prairie, 31 Ariz. St. L.J. 439 (1999).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Indian Nations on the Eve of the 21st Century: Panel Discussion, 43 S.D. L. Rev. 438 (1998).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Leonard Bruguier, Sound Recording of an Interview With Leonard Bruguier and Frank Pommersheim on South Dakota Forum (1998).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Representing Native People and Indian Tribes: A Response to Professor Alegretti, 66 Fordham L. Rev. 1181 (1998).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Tribal Law and Tribal Courts, in The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition 340 (Bruce Johansen ed., 1998).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life (1995, Paperback ed. 1997).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Children in a Landscape, 2 Great Plains Nat. Resources J. [vii] (1997).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Democracy, Citizenship, and Indian Law Literacy: Some Initial Thoughts, 14 T. M. Cooley L. Rev. 457 (1997).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Mindfulness and Home: Poetry and Prose from a Prairie Landscape (1997).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Plums: A Geography, 2 Great Plains Nat. Resources J. [ix] (1997).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Reflections: A Series, in Silver Anniversary Anthology: Twenty-Five Years of the South Dakota Humanities Council 39 (Thomas J. Gasque ed. 1997).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Tribal Courts and the Federal Judiciary: Opportunities and Challenges for a Constitutional Democracy, 58 Mont. L. Rev. 313 (1997).
• Pommersheim, Frank. What Must be Done To Achieve the Vision of the Twenty-First Century Tribal Judiciary, 7 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y, no. 1 at 8 (1997).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Book Review, 41 Plains Anthropologist, no. 158, 1996, at 417 (reviewing Blue Clark, Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century (1994)).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Chris Hutton & Steve Feimer, I Fought the Law and the Law Won: A Report on Women and Disparate Sentencing in South Dakota, in Native Americans, Crime and Justice 209 (Marianne O. Nielsen & Robert G. Silverman eds., 1996).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Prairie Haiku: A Series, 1 Great Plains Nat. Resources J. [frontispiece] (1996).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Tribal Court Jurisprudence: A Snapshot from the Field, 21 Vt. L. Rev. 7 (1996).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Tribal Courts: Constitutional Decision Making and an Opportunity for Transformation, in Law and the Great Plains: Essays On the Legal History of the Heartland 151 (J.R. Wunder ed., 1996).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Book Review, 82 J. Am. Hist. 276 (1995) (reviewing Sidney Harring, Crow Dog's Case: American Sovereignty, Tribal Law and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century (1994)).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Diminishment of Indian Reservations: Legislative or Judicial Fiat? (Panel Discussion), 71 N.D. L. Rev. 415 (1995).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Dispute Resolution in Indian Country: Does Abstention Make the Heart Grow Fonder? (Panel Discussion), 71 N.D. L. Rev. 541 (1995).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Separation of Church and State, 12 J. L. & Religion 455 (1995).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Tribal Courts: Providers of Justice and Protectors of Sovereignty, 79 Judicature 110 (1995).
• Pommersheim, Frank. American Association of Law Schools, Conflicts Between Tribal & State Sovereignty (A presentation recorded in Orlando, Fla., during the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting, Jan. 8, 1994).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Introduction: Symposium on Tribal Courts, 19 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 1 (1994).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Snaps: Poetry and Prose from a Family Album (1994).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Making All the Difference: Native American Testimony and the Black Hills (A Review Essay), 69 N.D. L. Rev. 337 (1993).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Justice, Community and Differences: The Challenge from Indian Country, Update On L. Related Educ., Spring/Summer 1992, at 16.
• Pommersheim, Frank. Liberation, Dreams, and Hard Work: An Essay on Tribal Court Jurisprudence, 1992 Wis. L. Rev. 411 (1992).
• Pommersheim, Frank. South Dakota Tribal Court Handbook (Rev. ed. 1992).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Videotape: Bill of Rights and Native Americans (South Dakota State University 1992).
• Pommersheim, Frank. A Path Near the Clearing: An Essay on Constitutional Adjudication in Tribal Courts, 27 Gonz. L. Rev. 393 (1991).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Charles Abourezk & John Davidson, Report to the Dean of The University of South Dakota School of Law: Native Americans and The University of South Dakota School of Law (1991).
• Pommersheim, Frank. The Reservation as Place: A South Dakota Essay, in Centennial West: Essays On the Northern Tier States 59 (William L. Lang ed., 1991).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Tribal-State Relations: Hope for the Future, 36 S.D. L. Rev. 239 (1991).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Conversation with Frank Pommersheim, South Dakota Public Television (1990).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Steve Feimer, Marking Time: Does Race Make a Difference? A Study of Disparate Sentencing in South Dakota, 13 J. Crime & Just. 86 (1990).
• Pommersheim, Frank. When It Comes to Indians, the West is Ignorant, High Country News, May 21, 1990, at 15.
• Pommersheim, Frank. American Association of Law Schools, Native American Rights, (A presentation recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 5-8, 1989).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Chris Hutton & Steve Feimer, I Fought the Law and the Law Won: A Report on Women and Disparate Sentencing in South Dakota, 15 New Eng. J. On Crim. & Civ. Confinement 177 (1989).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Steve Wise, Going to the Penitentiary: A Study of Disparate Sentencing in South Dakota, 16 Crim. Just. & Behav. 155 (1989).
• Pommersheim, Frank. The Crucible of Sovereignty: Analyzing Issues of Tribal Jurisdiction, 31 Ariz. L. Rev. 329 (1989).
• Pommersheim, Frank. The Reservation as Place: A South Dakota Essay, 34 S.D. L. Rev. 246 (1989).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Robert Fields, JoAllyn Archambault, Herbert Hoover & Russell Hawkins, Sound Recording of Panels at Native American Cultural Awareness Week (1988).
• Pommersheim, Frank. South Dakota Tribal Court Handbook (1988).
• Pommersheim, Frank. The Black Hills Case: On the Cusp of History, 4 Wicazo Sa Rev. 18 (1988).
• Pommersheim, Frank. The Contextual Legitimacy of Adjudication in Tribal Courts and the Role of the Tribal Bar as an Interpretive Community: An Essay, 18 New Mex. L. Rev. 49 (1988).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Voice, Values, and Community: Some Reflections on Legal Writing, 12 Legal Stud. F. 477 (1988).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Jean Belille, Sherman Marshall, & LeRoy Greaves, Sound Recording of Speakers at Indian Awareness Days at the University of South Dakota (1987).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Terry Pechota, Tribal Immunity, Tribal Courts, and the Federal System: Emerging Contours and Frontiers, 31 S.D. L. Rev. 553 (1986).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Oral History Interview with Robert Bunge, Clarence Rockboy, Vince Two Eagles, Robin Russell, Cato Valandra, Thomas Shortbull, Calvin Thunderhawk, Loren Zephier, Steve Emery, and Margaret Zephier (1985).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Economic Development in Indian Country: What Are the Questions?, 12 Am. Indian L. Rev. 195 (1984).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Anita Remerowski, Reservation Street Law (1979).
• Pommersheim, Frank. Broken Ground and Flowing Waters: An Introductory Text on Rosebud Sioux Tribal Government (1977).

• Walter Echo-Hawk Distinguished Visiting Professor, Lewis and Clark Law School, 2016
• John Wesley Jackson Outstanding Professor of Law, School of Law, 2007
• Distinguished Lecturer, Northern Plains Indian Law Center, 2005
• Special Award for Work in Native American and Tribal Law, International Conference of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 2003
• South Dakota Peace and Justice Center Reconciliation Award, South Dakota Peace and Justice Center, 2000
• Lawyers for One America, 1999
• Teacher of the Year Award, Delta Theta Phi, 1999
• USD Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching, USD, 1998
• President's Award for Outstanding Affirmative Action, USD, 1991
• John Wesley Jackson Outstanding Professor of Law, School of Law, 1988